Jayla
#529 for girls in 2025, 569 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 3,410 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,432since 1968
Jayla over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #529 | 569 | — | |
| 2024 | #404 | 788 | — | |
| 2023 | #355 | 862 | — | |
| 2022 | #340 | 949 | — | |
| 2021 | #308 | 1,039 | — | |
| 2020 | #301 | 1,074 | — | |
| 2019 | #251 | 1,286 | — | |
| 2018 | #241 | 1,351 | — | |
| 2017 | #237 | 1,350 | — | |
| 2016 | #232 | 1,391 | — | |
| 2015 | #238 | 1,394 | — | |
| 2014 | #207 | 1,625 | — | |
| 2013 | #174 | 1,839 | — | |
| 2012 | #170 | 1,847 | — | |
| 2011 | #149 | 2,090 | — | |
| 2010 | #132 | 2,381 | — | |
| 2009 | #128 | 2,539 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #117 | 2,927 | — | |
| 2007 | #131 | 2,625 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #99 | 3,410 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #197 | 1,765 | — | |
| 2004 | #216 | 1,561 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #200 | 1,661 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #210 | 1,571 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #222 | 1,422 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #261 | 1,259 | — | |
| 1999 | #316 | 982 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #387 | 715 | — | |
| 1997 | #461 | 544 | — | |
| 1996 | #554 | 421 | — | |
| 1995 | #694 | 307 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,133 | 158 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,237 | 140 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,622 | 94 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,740 | 83 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,295 | 48 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jayla! It came in at #4,489, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jayla
- 125 spots since 2024 (#404 → #529)
- 228 spots since 2020 (#301 → #529)
- 291 spots since 2015 (#238 → #529)
- Biggest jump: 439 spots in 1995 (#1,133 → #694)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 2025 (#404 → #529)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2006 at #99 (3,410 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2006
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 558 girls born in 2006 were named Jayla (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,825 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 44.7% of all girls named Jayla (20,740) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #4,489 (1968) | #4,489 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,652 (1977) | #5,857 |
| 1980s | 282 | #2,295 (1988) | #3,485 |
| 1990s | 3,494 | #316 (1999) | #1,058 |
| 2000s | 20,740 | #99 (2006) | #178 |
| 2010s | 16,554 | #132 (2010) | #203 |
| 2020s | 5,281 | #301 (2020) | #373 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jayla in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 1,144 of them was named Jayla, which outranked 98.8% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 388,303 of them was named Jayla, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).